The documents included in this section have been selected from several classes of Records with the sole object of illustrating the various types of judicial procedure in the form of Inquisitions as opposed to actual Pleadings. Even so, the selection is necessarily an arbitrary one, and special attention has naturally been given to the constitutional aspect of the subject. Perhaps the most important documents in this series are those connected with the Eyre, for judicial or fiscal business (Nos. 69—71). Of these the Old and New Chapters of the Eyre (No. 70 c and d) are derived from a manuscript source that is possibly unique, and it will be noticed that the sequence of documents given here includes, besides the abbreviated Chapters, extracts from the actual Presentments made before the justices. To these have been prefixed specimens of the instruments by which the Eyre was instituted and proclaimed (No. 70 a and b). It will be noticed that the conventional form of the ‘Old Chapters of the Eyre’ which may be found between 1194 and 1254 undergoes considerable change during the second half of the 13th century, and the connexion between this innovation and the Political Inquisitions of that period, beginning with the Hundred Rolls of 1255, has been referred to elsewhere. A comparison on the one hand of the conventional ‘Chapters of the Eyre,’ with the ‘Chapters’ printed below and, on the other hand, with the Articles of certain of the Political Inquisitions referred to (Nos. 56, 57, 58, 60) will be found instructive.